Hilltoppers tie for 3rd at ECU Tourney

GREENVILLE, N.C. — WKU Hilltopper Golf finished in the top four as a team for the
fourth time in six events this season Tuesday, tying for third at East Carolina’s
ECU Intercollegiate.

The Hilltoppers tied with Jacksonville at 886 (291-294-301). Four WKU golfers
finished in the top 20 individually at the par-72, 6,755-yard Brook Valley Country
Club.

They were just six shots behind the champion and host, East Carolina, and four
strokes behind second-place Campbell (No. 42). East Carolina, Campbell and
Jacksonville are all top-100 programs. WKU also finished ahead of No. 46 Charleston
and No. 99 James Madison.

“This was a great learning experience for us,” WKU head coach Chan Metts said. “We
put ourselves in a position to compete for a win, and that’s always a goal going
into every event. Even though we came up a little short, those moments are so
valuable in terms of learning and improving.”

Redshirt senior Billy Tom Sargent led the Hilltoppers with a tie for third at 218
(69-73-76). That’s Sargent’s fourth top-20 performance of the season and his second
in the top three.

Redshirt junior Linus Lo tied the best result of his career by tying for seventh at
221 (73-75-73).

Junior Tom Bevington found the top 15 for the second straight event, tying for 15th
with a 223 (72-75-76) tally. WKU tied for the tournament lead with 39 total birdies,
led by 10 apiece from Bevington and Sargent.

The Hilltoppers have almost a month off from tournament competition before returning
to the course at Vanderbilt’s Mason Rudolph Championship on April 5-7 in Nashville,
Tenn.

“This event will make us better moving forward, because we took several things away
that we know we need to improve on,” Metts said. “Now we have a big break before our
next event, which gives us a lot of time to work on those things.”